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Kamau Brathwaite
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Professor of Comparative Literature, History
B.A. 1953, Cambridge; D.Phil. 1968, Sussex

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Research Interests:

Caribbean literature, culture, and society

Fellowships/Honors:

Neustadt International Award for Literature; Casa de Las Americas prize Prize for poetry; Casa de las Americas Prize for Literary Criticism; Guggenheim Fellow; Fulbright Fellow; Ford Foundation Fellow; etc.

Selected Works:

Rights of Passage. London: Oxford University Press. 1967.
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy: Rights of Passage-Masks-Islands. London: Oxford University Press. 1973.
Our Ancestral Heritage: A Bibliography of the Roots of Culture in the English-speaking Caribbean. Mona: Savacou Publications. 1976.
Barbados Poetry: A Checklist: Slavery to the Present. Mona: Savacou Publications. 1979.
Jamaica Poetry: A Checklist: Slavery to the Present. Kingston: Jamaica Library Service. 1979.
Ancestors. Forthcoming.
Magical Realism. Forthcoming.

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